Forward deployed engineer
An engineer who works inside a business unit to build a working solution for the company through to production.
An FDE often identifies the goals and steps that make up a job, which is the groundwork Agentic needs.
Also called
- FDE
- Deployment engineer
- Embedded engineer
- Deployment strategist
- Applied AI engineer
Kinds
- External FDE An engineer from a software or AI vendor who works inside a customer's company to build a working solution on the vendor's product and get it into production.
- Internal FDE An engineer on your company's own staff who sits inside a business unit to build and run AI systems for that team's work.
Often confused with
- Product engineer A role which entails responsibility to design and build features through production to meet a user need.
- AI champion A person driving AI adoption and enablement inside a team or function.
Related
- Use-case owner A named person, usually a business leader, who is accountable for one use of AI in your company, including its results, its risks and its compliance.
How it connects
- Forward deployed engineer maps the steps for Agentic